Hi Olivia,
Welcome to your personalized Grit Lab Report!
We will go week by week, reviewing everything you have told us through Poll Everywhere.
We hope this will help you reflect on what you have learned and experienced during Grit Lab.
Important note!
Sometimes, you may not have been able to respond to all polls.
If the data for one of the polls is missing, the automatic report will display NA, or ““.
Okay, let’s get started!
The first half of Grit Lab delves deep intp the passion facet of Grit.
We like to call it Choose Easy, because we think gritty people pursue what they enjoy.
Putting it graphically, gritty people tend to pursue the intersection of these four circles.
The first time we met, you told us where you were on the grit rubric.
Regarding passion you picked .
Regarding perseverance you picked .
As you know, grit grows, so don’t worry if you are not yet where you’d like to be in your grit journey.
Hopefully, this class will help you become grittier each day.
In week 2, we looked at your interests.
Interest is an emotion, and it is the opposite of boredom.
Your interests are the activities or subjects that spontaneously grab your attention.
Trying things out and seeing how you feel is the best way to refine your interests.
In week 3, we studied values, your beliefs about what is important.
You said your top three values were benevolence, achievement, and self-direction.
You wrote a “This I Believe” essay, and here’s where you located it on Schwartz’s value taxonomy.
When we talked about strengths in week 4, you said your personality strength was openness.
You said your top three talents were NA, NA, and NA.
We then talked about goal hierarchies.
You said you had a pretty good idea about your top-level goal.
We discussed self-concordance, or how much a goal aligns to your deeply held values and beliefs.
A goal you said you will be pursuing for the next six months is to read more about the industry i am entering .
Here is how self-concordant that goal was:
Don’t worry if your self-concordance for that particular goal is low.
It might mean that you need to reframe that goal in a way that makes it more relevant to your deep self, or change it!
Remember that self-concordance is goal specific, so other goals might be more self-concordant.
We then transitioned to the second part of Grit Lab:
Work Smart
In week 6, we looked at goal setting and planning.
You WOOPed!
For your Wish, what you wanted to accomplish, you said To read/finish the book a mentor recommended .
For your Outcome, what would happen if your wish came true, you said I’ll be a better investor .
For you Obstacle, what it is within you that stands in your way, you said “No time to read” .
For your Plan, you created this when-then plan to achieve your goal: When I’m on the bus to nyc, I’ll read for most of the journey .
Whether you changed your WOOP or stuck to that one, here’s where it landed between being a total fail, and going exactly according to plan.
And here’s how much you learned
These goals are hard, and despite our best efforts, our plans can fail.
The important thing is that you learn something along the way!
In week 7, we talked about deliberate practice.
You shared you’ve done daily practice in SAT .
We learned that deliberate practice requires a challenging, hyperspecific goal, maximum concentration, instant feedback, and is often done alone.
In week 8, we discussed feedback.
Even though feedback can be hard to take, it is often the key to improve. So if you want to improve, seek it actively!
You said you felt Ashamed when receiving critical feedback, and Ashamed when receiving positive feedback.
We then turned to learning about stress.
In week 9, you reported feeling a moderate amount of stress in your life right now, the primary source of it being financial .
We also talked about adversity and failure.
Although related, adversity and failure are different:
Adversity happens to us, whereas failure is something for which we are generally more responsible.
However, how we interpret stress and failure matters…
Interestingly, research has found that people who believe that stress can facilitate learning and growth experience enhanced performance, well-being, and health.
And failure—not achieving a particular goal—can be interpreted as “I’m learning!” and lead you to look for the lesson in that experience.
We closed the Work Smart section of the class by talking about habits.
Throughout the semester, you practice habit building using your Build-A-Habit Guide book.
You describe the habit you chose as Something else .
Whether you were successful in habit building or not, this is how much you learned.
Finally, what good is grit if we do not dream for others?
So, we transitioned to Paying it Forward.
In week 10, we looked at mentors: role models that take an active role in your growth.
Hopefully, your mentor was authoritative, being both supportive and demanding.
Here’s how you described them:
You also wrote a gratitude letter to .
In one word, you said it made you feel .
One way of paying it forward is having a prosocial, beyond-the-self purpose. Here’s how you responded to items assessing that.
… and so quickly we arrived at the end of the semester.
Here’s how your mood varied over these weeks.
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Do you notice any patterns? Is there anything that correlates with your mood?
Here you can scroll through all the quotes you wrote to summarize each class.
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| Remember who you were in high school, that is a clue |
| "The secrets to happiness is alignment" |
| "You have to earn flow" |
| "What can I do or stop doing to make it easier to work with me" |
| "To transform from failure, you first have to let yourself feel really bad about it" - Sarah Lewis |
| Successful people have a system. |
| Most successful people lean on other people |
| "If am not for myself who will be for me. If I am not for others who am I. If not now then when" |
In the final class, we looked back to everything we’ve learned together and to how our passion and perseverance evolved during this class.
Here are the comments from your Grit Lab Teammates:
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| Andrea Rodriguez |
| Olivia has been a great addition to our team this semester! She is very kind and always had interesting insights when we have our group reflections at the beginning of class. Her responses to all the prompts were well thought out, and I loved hearing her stories about all the places she’s lived. I also really liked that Olivia always had a positive attitude and was willing to strike up a conversation, even after we had finished discussing the prompts that were given to us in class.
What I liked the most about her presentation was that we all learned from it. I enjoy going to museums and looking at art, so I enjoyed that she taught us about sub-Saharan African art and seeing pictures of the pieces. I liked that she provided a list of all the museums and galleries that exhibit this art, so I took a picture and I will definitely go check them out! I really enjoyed listening to her presentation, as you could tell that she was very interested in the topic and had done lots of research and worked hard on it.
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| Isabel Ernst |
| Olivia has a drive to expand upon her genuine passions. In each of our group discussions, Olivia was always able to draw personal connections and visualize how she would implement new things she learned. Olivia is also deeply curious. In group discussions, Olivia always challenged us to think deeper or from a different point of view. She is also interested in those around her. She is just as excited and interested about other people’s passions as she is her own.
Olivia’s Discovery project reflected these deep personal interests. One thing that truly spoke to me was her recognition and appreciation of growing up in a house where there not only was fine art, but fine art that she felt represented in. This shows Olivia’s conscientiousness. I also found it touching that Olivia was able to connect with family members through the topic. The depth and scope of her project did not surprise me as I have found Olivia to be deeply committed to her passions. |
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Kaya Holmes |
| Olivia was a great person to sit next to all semester because of her smile. She's very frank and is open to offering ways to improving grit lab, such as minimizing the number of interactive graphs. I've found that she emulates the 'feedback' component of the class very well by interacting with our group constructively. She always has positive reactions whenever we tell the group about our experiences, which encourages us to speak more.
Olivia investigated African American art for her presentation, which was very thought-provoking especially considering my African American background as well. I enjoyed her feature of people with grit, such as people that opened their own art studios. I also liked her own personal touch highlighting her favorite pieces. My biggest piece of feedback I have is further highlighting the culture of grit; she made me curious to find what other efforts are being made to focus more on African Art, and what groups are doing to push the initiative. |
We hope you have emerged from Grit Lab a little grittier than you started.
Do you want to see how your grit rubric changed?
Drumroll please…
Don’t worry if the rubric doesn’t yet reflect growth. It is only a coarse measure that cannot replace your own self-reflection.
In any case, grit is not built in a day…
…remember that progress is never smooth…
…so stay passionate and persevering in the lifelong quest of choosing easy, working smart, and paying it forward.
With grit and gratitude,
Angela and the Grit Lab team.